The Brief: TikTokers are creating videos about their phone's live wallpaper. When a button is pushed it reveals funny, cute, or even steamy NSFW images.
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TikTokers are making videos about their cell phone’s live wallpaper on TikTok. These videos are marked by TikTokers pretending someone (usually a family member) is curious about their wallpaper, before tapping it, and revealing their video background (typically a funny, cute, or NSFW video). This trend began growing in popularity on April 24. At the time of publication, there are over 12,900 TikTok videos linked to the sound, which features a clip from Dexter’s Laboratory before merging into Melanie Martinez’s “Playdate.”
This popular video results in an interesting live wallpaper of the Colonel from KFC.
@redfacebabyyyyy##greenscreen ##greenscreenvideo Tik Tok made me do it😳 ##foryou ##foryoupage ##livewallpaper ##fyp♬ lil timmy tim – elliewrayy
Here are a few other popular examples:
@buttcrackiaah to be young and in love with levi ackerman 😍 ##anime ##weeb ##attackontitan ##aot ##snk ##leviackerman ##wallpaper ##tiktokprom ##foryou♬ lil timmy tim – elliewrayy
@nickkmaguirealways have a place for my king 👑♬ lil timmy tim – elliewrayy
These videos seem to have been inspired by a popular video montage of Timothée Chalamet and Tom Holland set to Melanie Martinez’s “Playdate.” The video created by user @sandy.0234 and it received over 2.2 million likes and 16.5 million views after it was posted on April 17.
@sandy.0234blame my high standards on this##foryou##foryoupage##fyp##timotheechalamet##tomholland##harrystyles##dylanobrien♬ timmy trend – sandy.0234
@Sandy.0234’s video then appeared in a TikTok that used the montage as live wallpaper on April 18. This video received over 734,000 likes and 5.7 million views.
@sillychickennuggetI didn’t think it’d actually work LOL ##duet with @sandy.0234 ##timotheechalamet ##harrystyles ##tomholland ##dylanobrien ##fyp